130: Mary Anne Mez Monckton

12/17/14 • 89 min

Mary-Anne Monckton doing her aerial layout series on beam. Photo by Nadia Boyce.

The 20 year-old is a student of the sport, should probably be a in the next episode of The Hard Way To Success, she still loves gymnastics despite seven surgeries, she gym nerded-out because she made a beam final with Catalina Ponor, is inspired by the number of women (20 and older) who held their own in the all-around final in Nanning -- she is Australia's Mary-Anne Monckton! Emma and Jessica discuss the following gymnerdery with Miss Mez:

Why she hated gymnastics at first and being chosen like Nadia at age 7.
Surviving seven surgeries with her love for gymnastics intact!
Trying not to freak out while competing in beam finals with her gymnastics idol, Catalina Ponor.
Thinking the wrong score was posted when she placed second to Larissa Iordache on beam in Doha.
Her description of the beloved post-beam finals celebration with Ellie at the Commonwealth Games.
Tales from Nanning, food report, her favorite competitors there and her opinion on the tie-breaking procedures for finals.
Being coached by the infamous, Ju-Ping Tian.
Explaining her desire to do American NCAA gymnastics to her Australian mother.
Why she became a student of the sport (AKA super gym nerd), not just an athlete.
Jet lag tips everyone can use.
Her thoughts on Australian Gymnastics Jail and how the team Glasgow Commonwealth Games were chosen.
She tells the most endearing Peggy Liddick story you will ever hear and shares Peggy's sage advice.

Follow Mez on Twitter, her YouTube channel for progress videos or Instagram.

Mary-Anne Monckton doing her aerial layout series on beam. Photo by Nadia Boyce.

Why she hated gymnastics at first and being chosen like Nadia at age 7.
Surviving seven surgeries with her love for gymnastics intact!
Trying not to freak out while competing in beam finals with her gymnastics idol, Catalina Ponor.
Thinking the wrong score was posted when she placed second to Larissa Iordache on beam in Doha.
Her description of the beloved post-beam finals celebration with Ellie at the Commonwealth Games.
Tales from Nanning, food report, her favorite competitors there and her opinion on the tie-breaking procedures for finals.
Being coached by the infamous, Ju-Ping Tian.
Explaining her desire to do American NCAA gymnastics to her Australian mother.
Why she became a student of the sport (AKA super gym nerd), not just an athlete.
Jet lag tips everyone can use.
Her thoughts on Australian Gymnastics Jail and how the team Glasgow Commonwealth Games were chosen.
She tells the most endearing Peggy Liddick story you will ever hear and shares Peggy's sage advice.

Follow Mez on Twitter, her YouTube channel for progress videos or Instagram.

Previous Episode

129: Why Gabby Left Chow (or Chow left Gabby) and Glasgow World Cup

Larisa Iordache ended the year on a high, winning the 2014 Glasgow World Cup.

This week we've included time stamps for each segment of the show per your request. Let us know if you like it. Uncle Tim, Emma, and Jessica chat about:

The Glasgow World Cup (00:00): massive moments of joy, shooting fire, Vanessa Ferrari looking tired, pulling shorts up to belly buttons, John Orozco and Oleg Verniaiev scamping around Glasgow, why Pauline Schaefer of Germany stole the show. Plus the juniors we fell in love with from Espoir.
The Mexican Open (34:14): The Four Amiga's: Boguinskaya, Daniela Silivas, Podkopayeva, and Chusovitina; the greatness that is Marta Pihan-Kulesza's exquisite form; the return of the fierce little Italian, Enus Mariani to international competition; and most importantly, our review of the latest super bling $10,000 leotard by GK.
NCAA previews (52:49): Our thoughts of Chayse Capps new floor routine, the genius that is Stacey Ervin's stick-a-thon floor routine and our gratittude for NCAA gymnastics after the long artistic drought that is the elite gymnastics code of points hell.
Our favorite items from the 2014 Ultimate Gym Nerd Gift Guide (1:01:16) and what Uncle Tim's gymnastics nieces want for Christmas. It involves heavy excavation machinery.
Uncle Tim gives his review of Cirque du Soliel's steampunk-inspired show, Kurios--complete with droplets of man sweat and what made the wive's in the audience smack their husband's mouthes closed. (1:05:34)
Gymternet News (1:13:43): Gabrielle Douglas's agent dished all the dirt on why Dougy left Chow's, an explanation for Mustafina's poor performance in Stuttgart, the coming out stories of a rhythmic and artistc Olympian, how we feel about men's and women's Olympic trials being held separately, new skills in the code of points and why you should sign up for college Fantasy Gymnastics.
Mail Call (1:41:43): An outraged Russian listener, Irish Daniel asks what we think of Verona van de Leur announcing her comeback, and a very knowledgable listener takes gymnasts to task for copyright theft against choreographers.

Check out our Gift Guide here. Draft your fantasy gymnastics team by December 27! collegefantasygymnastics.com

Next Episode

131: A New Hope

In the news, Jessica, Uncle Tim and Evan chat about:

The freshly made senior elites, why we are excited about them, from Nia Dennis (USA) and Ryannon Jones (GB) to Flavia Saraiva (BR). (7:30)
The best thing about new gymternet sweetheart Ksenia Klimenko's beam video, aside from her gymnastics; the gong show.
Evan reports in from the first and most mind blowing NCAA meet of the year so far; at the NorCal Classic where Cal won and Stanford came in fourth. Elizabeth Price murdered the vault, Taylor Rice made us imagine her beating Britney Spears down with a glittery hammer while Indian Princess, Kalliah McCartney, strummed at our heart strings with her tall-is-gorgeous-ness. (16:30)
Evan predicts the eventual rise to power of Cal's new competitor, Toni Ann Williams, the owner of a double front dismount on beam.
NCAA season means we get to see our favorite elites in a whole new light. Find out who we are most excited to see - hint it's Captain Canada for Jessica. (35:00)
What should the best qualities be in an adult gymnastics coach? We have the example by way of an unusual ballet teacher.

Our weekly roundup of the latest news stories from around the gymternet include:

Aliya Mustafina is now working with Denis Ablyzian's coach at a primarily male gym. (44:50)
Uncle Tim reviews Shawn Johnson to find out what makes her taco pie pop on Celebrity Apprentice.
USAG gifts us a video view of Simone Biles and her new Aliya bar dismount.
Roxana Popa was competing with a torn ACL.
Adrianna Kenebrew can do beam and squat-ons even though she's legally blind - what's your excuse grown ups?! Time for adult gymnastics for everyone!
Shilese Jones is the newest immigrant to Buckeye Gymnastics with Gabrielle Douglas and Nia Dennis.
Katelyn Ohashi announces her return to competition at Texas Prime as a level 10, but at age 17 why hasn't she committed to college yet?
The Olympics official add "sexual orientation" to Principle 6 of the charter. Should the FIG follow suit and ban meets in countries with anti-gay laws on the books?

Kenzo is doing a triple-double laid out! Koji Uematsu posted an Instragram video of his piked Kovacs, tucked kovacs, Kolman, Gaylord II! Not human!

Kalliah McCartney is our gymnastics goddess of the week. The Sacramento State junior is 5' 7" tall (normal human size), went to Naydenov Gymnastics (just like 2014 Secret Classic champ Jordan Chiles), and if that wasn't enough, she is the decedent of a Native American princess in the Cowlitz tribe! We will be watching the Bulgarian trained mistress of elegance all season long. Expect her to make it to NCAA Championships again this year.